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Against the Grain

Against the Grain

12:00 PM Pacific Time: Mondays - Wednesdays

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Acclaimed program of ideas, in-depth analysis, and commentary on a variety of matters—political, economic, social, and cultural—important to progressive and radical thinking and activism. Against the Grain is co-produced and co-hosted by Sasha Lilley and C. S. Soong.

Against the Grain

Against the Grain – March 31, 2008

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Environmental lawyer and journalist Claire Hope Cummings has written a new book entitled "Uncertain Peril: Genetic Engineering and the Future of Seeds." Wes Jackson of The Land Institute is working to transform the major grain crops into hardy perennials.


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Against the Grain – March 26, 2008

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Philosopher and author George Caffentzis critiques Peak Oil and describes how Enclosures continue to devastate workers around the globe.


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Against the Grain – March 25, 2008

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Stiglitz on the Iraq Occupation Nobel laureate and former chief economist for the World Bank, Joseph Stiglitz, talks about the costs of the invasion of Iraq and the gloomy prospects for the US economy with journalist Doug Henwood.


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Against the Grain – March 24, 2008

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Sabu Kohso of the group No! G8 Action describes Left movements and workers’ struggles in Japan over the years. And Robert Weil talks about worker resistance in the sprawling factories of Shenzhen, China.


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Against the Grain – March 19, 2008

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Sociologist Michael Schwartz describes the current catastrophic situation in Iraq and offers an historical and strategic analysis of the US-led war and occupation.  And journalist Arun Gupta discusses the specific ways in which the war has been about oil.


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Against the Grain – March 18, 2008

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Russell Banks’s new novel “The Reserve,” about class relations, love, and deception, is set in the Adirondack mountains. And Lenny Kohm describes the impact of mountaintop removal mining on Appalachian ecologies and communities.


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Against the Grain – March 11, 2008

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The veteran activist and theorist Michael Albert, who co-founded Z Magazine and South End Press, has penned a memoir entitled "Remembering Tomorrow: From SDS to Life After Capitalism."


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Against the Grain – March 10, 2008

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In his book "The Lemon Tree," Sandy Tolan traces the history of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict through the lives of two people, an Arab who as a boy left his home in 1948 and a Jew who moved into and grew up in the Arab man’s former house.


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